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Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by superasn »

I think a solution for this is alternating between standing and sitting desk with the recommended time interval being 20 min sitting, 8 min standing and 2 min just generally moving around.

Instead of buying a transitioning desk I just hooked 3 monitors to my desktop where 2 are sitting and 1 (lg 2560px) is standing and created a small delphi app that switches the monitor for me every 30 mins. So far it has done some good for my back but i feel that doing this sort of circus destroys my focus. Still health is over everything so I'm sticking with it.

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Post by greglindahl »

makecheck wrote: post #39

I prefer to take frequent walks, which also helps to clear my head and forces me to do other exercises like climbing stairs. A “standing desk” just seems like a really complex solution that doesn’t even address any part of the problem except the sitting. Also, standing desks are really weird in a cubicle situation where suddenly your neighbor is towering over the wall for an hour, peering into your space.

Cubes come in more than one height, are you talking about the short ones?

Also, does having a standing desk stop you from talking frequent walks? Have you seen someone who advocates standing desks recommend not having any other mitigation?

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Post by mamon »

saagarjha wrote: post #26
Groxx wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So since we evolved to chase our prey rather than run from hunters, maybe we should program by putting our computer on a gazelle, and we have to catch it in order to write code for the [time period]? It'd certainly lead to more thinking before writing, maybe the tradeoff would be worth it.

If you’re fine with waiting a couple days for the gazelle to tire out before you can catch up to it, sure. And that’s if you know the signs to follow where the gazelle is.

From the linked Wikipedia entry it seems that it usually takes 2 to 5 hours, and 25 to 35 km chase. Not sure why you say "couple days". And hunters usually know the signs to follow to track a gazelle, so that's also non-issue.

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Post by pen2l »

psynapse wrote: post #40
pen2l wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been doing weighted squats for about 6 months now and oh my god I am so happy with how big my butt is. I cannot wait for it to become even bigger by next year as I continue doing squats.

Throw a few heavy deadlifts in there. You'll develop some hard glutes.

I do hex deadlifts, I like how they develop my upper back and neck.

I have a computer nerd neck... I’ve been thinking how to solve that. I think I should do front squats rather than the standard.

Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by natalyarostova »

DrBazza wrote: post #43

Standing desks aren't yet (2016) proven to do anything: https://www.cochrane.org/news/health-effects-sit-stand-desks...

Anecdotal proof often precedes formal proof. If the cost is low and there exists potential expected benefit it can still be rational to do it.

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Post by brianzelip »

makecheck wrote: post #39

I prefer to take frequent walks, which also helps to clear my head and forces me to do other exercises like climbing stairs. A “standing desk” just seems like a really complex solution that doesn’t even address any part of the problem except the sitting. Also, standing desks are really weird in a cubicle situation where suddenly your neighbor is towering over the wall for an hour, peering into your space.

I can second the awkward towering co-worker.

Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by nilkn »

Instead of trying to create a fancy standing/sitting desk workflow, I've personally tried to just take more breaks throughout the day. Unless the weather's terrible, even a brief five minute walk does wonders.

It's also a great way to get some alone time and mull over what you're working on without distraction. Just as when I was a student studying mathematics and doing a bit of research, I've found that with programming sometimes a greater clarity of thought is achieved when you have nothing but your mind -- no pencil, no paper, no computer, nothing to write on, nothing to doodle on. It forces you to consider only ideas that you can fully manage in your head.

Re: Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt

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Post by emodendroket »

S_A_P wrote: post #31
plg wrote: post #19

talk to any nurse, surgeon, janitor, etc, and they will tell you that working on your feet all day is horrible for your health working on your butt all day is also horrible for your health it’s as if ... some middle-ground moderation-like situation might be optimal ... my god who would have guessed

https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a20860422/stand... A quick google brings this up. It seems to me that being alive is the leading cause of death.

Well, what do they say about lying in bed all day?
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